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TGIF! Well here we are a hoppin’ with Kiwi Lane Designs and I have have to say I had fun making this project with Fancy Pants Be Different Collection and KLD Tiny Brackets. I found this cute 3D gift card box over at online Silhouette Store and went to town. This project was made for Admin Assistant Appreciation Day (a schmooze gift my hubby could give to some of the admin support around his office). However, with Teacher Appreciation Week this upcoming week this is an idea that you may want to put to use ASAP.

I cut the base out on American Crafts card stock folded and glued the joints together and inked the edges. I then and cut, traced and inked the bracket templates from the Fancy Pants Collection and adhered it to the base with my Xyron Mega Runner.

I added some sticker embellishments from the collection and a button with some baker’s twine.

For the insert, I lined it with some corrugated paper from Die Cuts with a View.

That was easy huh?! Now keep on hoppin’ and enjoy all the other amazing inspirations being cooked up for you.

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Let me know, by leaving a comment, what you like to do with Kiwi Lane Templates and you may be a lucky ducky and score KLD Floral Template set – Just in time for crafting up some spring projects. I will announce the winner on Monday!

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Easy peasy lemon squeezy just like this fun project I made with the Owls Hoot Collection! All I did was reclaim a tabletop house shaped bookcase I found on clearance for $5 at Target and turn it into a dog house for my kiddo’s American Girl pets! My kiddos love owls so this collection came in handy since I made all their American Girl Doll bedding with owl fabric. Love when crafty kismet happens!

What I did was measure and cut down the design paper and attache using my Xyron Mega Runner and for the ribbon, I cut down American Crafts ribbon ran it though my 5 inch Creative Station and dressed the internal and external edges. I traced out some flower stencils using Kiwi Lane Designs Tiny Accents, inked the edges and ran through my Xyron Creative Station and attached to the roof. I dressed the house with flower accents I had on hand and the collection 3D stickers and Puffy stickers.

Now how is that for turning $5 and some cute crafty supplies into something that will be cherished and played with for many play-times to come?

Now make sure to hop through each designer down the list to be eligible for the most entries! When you’re done, just hop over to Paper House Blog and let us know! The hop will be running all weekend, so you have until Sunday at 11:59pm EST to get your entries in!

Spring is full of colored pastels, brightly colored eggs, bunnies and peeps, but to me spring means fresh, new, clean and simple. This is a time where I purge and clean my house from top to bottom and a time my citrus trees are in full bloom and fill my house with sweet fragrance.

Since I am currently in that spring clean mode, I decided to make a wreath the reflects how this time of the year makes me feel. I know, me and my wreaths, but I collect and make wreaths the way some collect shoes! I have to have a wreath for every occasion!

This wreath was so easy to make and is made with 100% all natural crafting products! How fresh is that? I was lucky enough to have Dave from Hemptique pass along some of their A-M-A-Z-I-N-G product to play and create with. Among the goodies, I received some Hemp Yarn and Variegated Rainbow Hemp Spool and just fell in love with the textures and colors!

I made the base by wrapping a flat 12 inch wooden ring, that can be found at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, with the Hemp Yarn. This was easy to do, but a bit time consuming but I did it while watching a movie with the hubs one night.

Then I made these colorful flower blossoms using the Variegated Rainbow Hemp by cutting around 24 inch strands and folding them in half and tie in a bow. I made three bows fro each flower blossom. Once all bows were made, I then used a hot glue gun and attached each bow to each other, one on top of another in a way that formed the flower blossoms. Once the flower blossoms were completed, I trimmed off the excess length and then added a linen button from, Close to My Heart, with hot glue to the center of each blossom. Once all blossoms were complete, I attached each blossom to the wreath using hot glue.

On the top portion of the wreath I cut enough Rainbow Hemp to be able to wrap around the wreath to showcase why it is called Rainbow Hemp.

To finish the wreath I hand-bound together a nice length of the Hemp Yarn and looped it around the top of the wreath for hanging and trimmed any excess length.

This wreath is super clean and fresh and because it is made with the durability of the 100% natural hemp, I have a feeling it will hanging on my front door a lot this year!

Now for the blog candy!

Who does not love mini chalkboards on a stick or should I say 8 chalkboards on 8 sticks? And since I have been gushing about how cool Hemptique product is, I thought I would throw in a ball of the amazing Hemp Yarn! Hey maybe you can make a project combining both these goodies! All you need to do is :

Happy Saturday! Welcome to the A Lovely Blog Hop, hosted by the sweet and ever lovely Jill from Every Day is an Occasion! I am so thrilled to be hopping along with these fabulously talented ladies and I hope you will hop along to see some of the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Valentine inspired projects! If you just joined us, please click HERE to start from the beginning If you came from Kelsie Ann from Cut Craft Create, you are in the right place!

What I have cookn’ for you today is a two part project! The first part is a super easy and clean way to express your Valentine cheer . . . Homemade soap! If I knew it was this easy, I would have been doing this for years! I actually had the kiddos help in making a few batches. The second is a super sweet and simple two piece box cut from Samantha Walker’s stash of amazing Silhouette designs.

Now on to the tutorials!

For the soap:I found the 2 lb scored clear glycerin soap brick on Ebay. It is made in the USA. It was around $7, but shipping was about the same. YIKES! However, a little goes a long way, so you get your money’s worth. I found a how-to example on Pinterest, but I decided to document how I did this, since I was using different tools.

First I cut up the glycerin soap only using two scored rows and chopped coarsely (the original tutorial said it breaks apart easily with your hands, that was so not the case with my brick. That stuff was hard as a rock!). I found that two rows makes one batch using my mold. I then added the chopped pieces to a glass measuring cup and microwaved it to melt it down in 3-4 ten second intervals stirring it each time (you really need to babysit this part, but what is 40 seconds of babysitting?).

I then pulled out my silicone heart mold I found at IKEA for $1 and poured the melted soap into the mold at a little under a half. I then added Recollections Berry Red Course Glitter for one batch and then some $ Bin find heart shaped glitter for the second batch. You need to move quickly, because it sets up fast. Once glitter was added, I then allowed for it to harden just for about a minute and then topped off each heart with the melted glycerin.

It takes about 15 minutes to completely set. All you do is pop them out of the mold and they are done! Easy peasy!

For the box:You can find the Pair of Hearts cut over at Silhoutte, click HERE! It imports to your screen with both boxes fitting on one 12×12 piece of card stock (I used the stock size that it was imported in and was super happy with the size- it was nice not to have to mess with re-sizing for a quick project). When doing a test cut I found that I needed to make sure to use a thicker design paper due to needing more structure; I used Crate Paper, Little Bo Peep. I placed the side of the paper I wanted to see on the outside of the box facing up. I did do “multi-cut”. Once cut, I folded the box, using a bone folder. I then inked the edges with Close To My Heart White Daisy stamp ink.

I then formed the box and glued the two flaps to secure it.

Once glue dried, I filled the boxes and closed them up (one box held 5 pieces of Bliss chocolates and one box held 4 heart soaps.) I then attached the boxes together.

I then attached the button on the button chain to the box for more security with Glue Dot minis.

There you have it! A sweet and chic Valentine treat!

Thanks for sharing a piece of “wishing you a very sweet and squeaky clean Valentine’s Day” pie with me and be sure to head over to see what sweet, and I do honestly do mean sweet (I have had the honor to meet her)Courtney, from Courts Crafts Corner has to share!

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